Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Flula Borg Returns Again

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Flula Borg feels su-sussudio about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Flula sits down with Conan once more to discuss the important items in his Bauchtasche, the possibility of a German James Bond, hi...s most valuable coin, and what he writes in his diary. Plus, Flula assists the team in calculating the podcast’s effects on the human brain as they Review the Reviewers. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847. Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Do I have to tell the truth? You can do whatever you like. Great. Hello, my name is Phil Collins. And I feel Susu Sudio about being Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, joined by Sona and Matt, my chums, my amigos. I was in New York recently doing some taping for the pod. I was solo, I missed you guys.
Starting point is 00:00:53 Oh, we missed you too. Not that much, but I missed you. I did miss you, it's better. We weren't invited, just to be clear. It's expensive. Okay. There's not a lot of flights that go from LA to New York. We looked into it.
Starting point is 00:01:04 So many, an hour early. I think York. We looked into it very early. I think so. Once a month, I think. But anyway, not a lot of airlines, not a lot of service between those two major hubs. My point is that at one point, and I don't remember what it was because I don't remember things,
Starting point is 00:01:20 but one of my happiest, I tend to make people laugh, but one of my happiest things ever is when I can make Adam Sacks, when I can catch him by surprise with something really insane, and I don't remember what it was. I did some bit and it may not be repeatable on the air. Is this on?
Starting point is 00:01:40 It is not repeatable on the air. Yeah, yeah, okay. It's not repeatable on the air because I say insane things. But I'm thinking about it now I'm tearing up. And I took, he started laughing. And what's great about Adam Sacks is that he's not, he's someone who's always kind of in control and he's very good natured and he's sweet.
Starting point is 00:01:59 But twice that time and another time, I've made him laugh where he can't stop laughing. And he holds his hand in front of his mouth. And I got a, I took a series of photos. Oh, wow. It's him. I haven't seen these. You haven't seen these?
Starting point is 00:02:16 No, but I have a very vivid memory of what you're talking about. It's this. Oh, yes, I know this look, yeah. And then he can't stop, and his hand always goes to his face, and he covers his mouth as if he was beaten as a child, if he laughed.
Starting point is 00:02:27 And- I was so out of control that in this moment that I was sitting in a chair, and I leaned over and I slapped the floor really hard, and I don't even know why. I just like could not control myself, and then I ended up in that place. You'll have to tell me after the pod what it was,
Starting point is 00:02:44 and I'm sure it was something that cannot be repeated. It's really funny. I cannot be repeated. I'm a terrible person, but I think you're such a good guy that sometimes if I come in with something that's completely insane and not tracking, I can get Adam. And that makes me super happy
Starting point is 00:03:00 because when it does happen, it's rare. It's like spotting this, you know, there's this creature in the woods that's only been photographed once. If I can get him, it's really satisfying. I feel like there are certain people on staff you hone in on, cause they don't give it up to you that easily.
Starting point is 00:03:15 One of your two children. Yes, one of my two children, also Samantha Curry, who works on our digital team, won't give it up to you too easily. Love Samantha, love Samantha, and Samantha will just stare at me and say, and nod, shake her head no slowly. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:30 And I'll say, come on. She'll be like, no. And I see you working harder to just try to get something out of her. Yeah. And it's funny because it's this fine line between disappointment and joy. I love the, I'm like a fish on a hook.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Like I've got to try and get Samantha. I'm not getting Samantha. If I really got her, it would terrify me. You're like a comedy masochist. Yes, I am. I am. I'm drawn to the one who is, no. And she's really good.
Starting point is 00:03:58 She's a very good straight person. She's just like, and also I'm sure she means it, but she's just like, nope, nope. I think I laugh a lot. I just, maybe I don't lose it. No, no, you laugh a lot, but you don't lose it. And to get you to lose it to the point where you're banging on the floor with your fist
Starting point is 00:04:13 and then it becomes, I mean, I think that was the day I interviewed Martin Short and we had such a spectacular and I love him, but I went away going, I walked away from that building across the street from MarketForce Center that day thinking away going, I walked away from that building in next, across the street from Mark Forrest Center that day, thinking, yeah, I got him. I really got Adam today.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Not thinking about Marty Short, a comedy icon who graced me with his presence. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I really got Adam. I got it. Hey, hey, you guys, I got Adam today. Who's Adam? And who are you? Stopping vendors on the street. I got Adam. I got Adam. Would you like some of this chicken? No, I don Adam today. Who's Adam? And who are you? Stopping vendors on the street.
Starting point is 00:04:45 I got Adam. I got Adam. Would you like some of this chicken? No, I don't want your chicken. All right, well, we gotta get into it. We got a lot to do. My guest today is a hilarious actor. He's a comedian, a magician, mind melder.
Starting point is 00:04:58 He's lovely. He's a force. He's a force in the industry and he's a good friend. I'm thrilled he's here. Flula Borg. Welcome. You're Flula Borg. Please. Please. You're an international man of mystery. Oh, the bag is out of the cat.
Starting point is 00:05:20 No, no, it's the cat is out of the bag. Oh. That's how you say it here? That's how we say it here. Oh, okay. Tell me, you and I have done many things together. 13, yes. We went to Berlin together.
Starting point is 00:05:33 We did. You toured with me. I, I'm gonna say this upfront. Say it. I love you. I love you as well. I delight in all things Flula Borg. He's a delightful fellow.
Starting point is 00:05:44 We can't get enough, Flulaorg. He's a delightful fellow. We can't get enough Flula. You are such a funny fellow. I don't even think you're aware you're funny. You're just representing your upbringing, your country. Yes, just human beings, Homo sapiens, Flula Borg. How are you guys? We're doing really well. Oh, wonderful.
Starting point is 00:05:59 It's wonderful to have you here. As always, you are dressed, and I know we're a podcast, but you can go and check out the video. You dress unlike anyone I've ever met. Always mitt the fanny pack, that's German for with. Today's is, you never double up on a fanny pack. I never see the same fanny pack twice. We've discussed this before,
Starting point is 00:06:18 but this one looks like it's made of molybdenum, the most powerful metal in the world. Yes, it's part of the periodic table of elements, of course, this also, if you have something in your tooth, you have a tooth in your mouth, a tooth in your thing, you can check it in my fanny pack. It's very nice, it's like a mirror. Yes, on the wall, who is the one with food in his mouth? Very nice, and so that's very useful.
Starting point is 00:06:37 And of course you always keep important items in your fanny pack. Absolutely, yes. What do you call it in, is it Austria? Where are you from? Well, I am, my originations? Yes. I'm German, yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:50 I didn't, I know Austria's different. I think of it as all the same. Oh, yeah, it all looks the same to you. Well, it does, I'm sorry. You go to one of the, they go, you want a strudel cake? And then you go to the other one, they're like, we'll have a strudel cake.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Okay, that first one was Austria, the second one was Munich. Okay, well, I'm sorry. Okay. I'm sorry, but when I'm in Austria, the second one was Munich. Okay, well I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but when I'm in Austria, I think I'm in Germany, and when I'm in Germany, I think I'm in Austria. And if that's offensive to people out there, I apologize, I'm American, we're an ignorant people.
Starting point is 00:07:15 And if you wish to disagree with me, you can swim across the Gulf of America, find me, and we'll straighten this shit out. Oh, wow. Shots fired at who? No one knows. No one knows, no one knows. It was a gun with blanks.
Starting point is 00:07:30 Oh, okay. You are from Germany. That's correct. And what do you call the fanny pack in Germany? I call it a fanny pack. Oh, okay. I wish it had a fun name like a Gleibnhauber. Oh, the Gleibnhauber is actually
Starting point is 00:07:42 how you repair flat tires. Ah! Yes, very nice. But if you'd like to, you may call it a Bauchtasche. Bauchtasche? Which means a stomach pocket, which sounds like, yes, what the kangaroo have. Yes, yes. Say it again for me.
Starting point is 00:07:54 Bauchtasche. Now say it backwards. Es hausgut nau. Hey, nice! There's nothing he can't do. Well, you got very German, you said. Oh, nice! Nice!
Starting point is 00:08:03 Vitte backwurz! That was a very Stuttgart accent, just saying. Oh, nice! Nice! Yeah. With the back of it. That was a very Stuttgart accent, just saying. I'm just saying. I stole mine from Dana Carvey, who probably stole his from a comedian in Stuttgart. You're also wearing... You what?
Starting point is 00:08:14 I wanna talk about, I don't know what to call it. Would you call it a sweatsuit? What would you guys call it? A tracksuit? A tracksuit. It's like a barbed wire, hatched tracksuit. Yeah, it's very strange looking. I mean, wonderful looking.
Starting point is 00:08:25 This looks like if I swallowed an EKG. Oh! It's great. But it's Usain Bolt, very systematic and low levels. Yes, yes, very systematic, low level, and it appears that you're in good health. You work out a lot, Flula. Is this true?
Starting point is 00:08:41 It is true because I shook your hand in the hallway. We did do this. And you crushed my hand and the carbon in my body became a diamond, which I plan to sell. You should sell this. I'm going to sell my right hand. You took me aboard. What'd you say?
Starting point is 00:08:55 Me aboard your right hand, not for inappropriate reasons, Kuhlmann. I might need it back if you know what I mean. I do as well. Yes, because of masturbation. Masturbation, yes. Yes. How do you call that in youration. Masturbation, yes. How do you call that in your country? Masturbation?
Starting point is 00:09:08 Schnatzel. A schnatzel? You say I need a little time with the schnatzel? It's time for schnatzel side. Yeah, I'm going to lock the door and have some schnatzel. Why lock the door, Karen? Well, in case someone walks in and goes, got nimble. That's the only thing that works for me.
Starting point is 00:09:20 OK. What? So now some guys like to be walked in on. Okay, thanks. Yeah, I'm just telling you, I thought- No, I know, I know, okay. What are you telling her? What are you telling her? What are you telling her?
Starting point is 00:09:30 Well, I don't know. Yeah, maybe Matt wants to know that too. Matt, do you like being walked in on? Are you kidding? Well, I don't know, with Kesha, you were pretty quick to walk in on her when she was in the bathroom. Oh!
Starting point is 00:09:39 Oh! On a recent podcast. Wow. Never walks in, we've had, you know, all these other people on Never Walks In. Kesha's, he had an ax he took to the door. That's true, are you a walker or a walkie? I'm a, you know. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Do you like to be walked in on when you're doing your, what is it called? Shtyby shtyby? Shtyby shtyby. Okay, shtyby shtyby. To be clear, that is what I call it. I call shtyby shtyby, I thought was when you do the nipples. When you rotate counterclockwise and clockwise around your own areolas.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Yes, depending, unless you're an Australia and you go the other way. Then it's the other way around, of course. The southern hemisphere reversed it. If you do it enough, you get Radio Free Europe. And blisters. Listen, you and I have a certain something which should never be released into the public. Agreed. Are we recording this?
Starting point is 00:10:19 No, I hope not. It'll be destroyed. Matt is giving me the signal that none of this is being recorded. And Eduardo is erasing as we go. He just keeps pushing delete, delete. Thank you, Eduardo. Thank you, Matthew. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:31 Matthias. Matthias. Matthias. Matthias, yeah, yeah. But the THS is the T for us. Do you have a Germanic descent at all? No, but I took two years of German in high school and watched a lot of World War II.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Oh, and I took a German out for two years. Oh my God. I'm trying to be clever. Is that a clever thing? Uh, no. I don't think so. I'm looking through the judges and no, it wasn't. Well, thank you again for taking me out for 772 days.
Starting point is 00:10:54 Oh! You and I, we've traveled around. We have a good time together. You're a wonderful, funny performer. Okay. And I think you bring a fresh perspective because we are in a time in this world where people are suspicious of people from other countries.
Starting point is 00:11:11 Really? I thought everything's going great. Okay. Well, I have you on because I wanna say, look, these people from other countries, they can be quite wonderful and delightful. Oh. And that is why I love to travel the world,
Starting point is 00:11:25 but I also like to have world travelers come to me. Come to you. It's much cheaper. You do not have to worry about time zones. And also the food. Oh, yes. I mean, I can't, the Wiener Schnitzel, it's too much. You don't like it.
Starting point is 00:11:35 You need your chip. No, no, I like Wiener Schnitzel, but it's when they, every meal they say, would you like our special Wiener Schnitzel? And they act like, yeah, we just had that nine days in a row. Well, listen, you must go 10 days every time. That's the rule. Double digit Wiener Schnitzel, then move to the Pommes. You're a delightful fellow.
Starting point is 00:11:56 As are you, Conan. And I did seriously wanna ask you about your workout, Regimen. In the past, you told me that you worked with this guy who just, I think, beat you with a leather cord or something. It was just, it sounded very masochistic, your workout. Yes, this is Paolo Maschitti. He's a shame-based trainer.
Starting point is 00:12:13 He's from Italy. Yes, we share an Axis history, but neither one of us was involved. So, okay. Yes. And you, did you, was that your posting, looking for a trainer from the Axis? Must be either Italian or Japanese, okay. Was that your posting looking for a trainer from the axis? Must be either Italian or Japanese, sorry.
Starting point is 00:12:30 And not having been involved. That's correct. Well, if they were involved, they'd be like 110 years old now. Yeah, and very wonderful with the cardiovascular. They're still alive. Teach me your tips. Do one pushup and then they fall over.
Starting point is 00:12:42 Done. But your workout sounded intense with this gentleman. Well, it's very verbally abusive. And so this is- And you like that because you're very self-hating. Yes, I need all of the negativity. I turn this into positivity. It's like when you put a battery inside of a flashlight.
Starting point is 00:12:59 It turns it on. Yes. Yes. Yes, if the battery's outside, what does it do? It does nothing. It waits to be inserted into your mag. Okay. Yes. If the battery's outside, what does it do? It does nothing. It waits to be inserted into your mag. Okay, okay. Do you know what I mean? No, I don't. I don't know what you mean.
Starting point is 00:13:12 I don't know. In this metaphor, Paolo is the battery and I am a large metal stiff flashlight. ["Bad Guy"] He energizes you. He fills you with light. Like that rabbit, yes fills you with light. Like that rabbit, yes. Yes, and, okay.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Good God, I don't know what to do. But you as a result, I've seen you without your shirt on, we won't talk about that. Let's not talk about it. We actually have footage of it, from our travel show to Germany. Oh yes. And the ladies, their eyes fell out of their heads
Starting point is 00:13:43 and some of the fellas. You look like you've been chiseled by Michelangelo. Oh, wow, which turtle is that? No, no, no, not the turtle the great sculptor with a stick. Yes Yes, no, no, oh, he had a small knives. No, no, no Michelangelo was with the pizza. Okay Let it drop. Okay. What I was trying to that, very impressive, and this is an obsession of yours. Do you think that's very Germanic, to want to have a powerful body? To tonic trait?
Starting point is 00:14:13 Yes. I need structure in my life, Conan. Life is chaos. What's happening, nobody knows. You eat, you pee, you poo, you sleep. Sometimes I need an added activity. That activity is lifting things up and down. In rapid succession?
Starting point is 00:14:24 Well, sometimes. Sometimes slow successions also will. Other thing that's good is succession, the TV show. Okay, all right. Let's not, you're always here to plug a show that you weren't on that no longer exists. Last time you talked incessantly about I Dream of Jeannie, no one's watched that show for 50 years. Really?
Starting point is 00:14:40 Yeah. Okay, no, okay. Pretending to blink on a podcast is a waste of everyone's time. So no one could hear that? No one could hear it. Have you seen Little House on the Prairie? Yeah, okay, again, you're plugging something
Starting point is 00:14:52 that no one watches anymore. You know, you do a wonderful service, Flula, if I may call you Flula. Oh, no, please do it. It's my name. Flula, you make what you call a flalander. Yes, I do. It's a calendar, but it's a Flula calendar,
Starting point is 00:15:04 and then you send it to all of us, and they're always flallander. Yes, I do. It's a calendar, but it's a Flula calendar. And then you send it to all of us and they're always delightfully fun. Oh, thank you. Because each month is you having a bit of a prank. Yeah. Some fun with the visual. And for 2025, your flallander was photos of you spoofing various movie covers and changing the title.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Home Alone, you change to... Go ahead. Unsupervised Juvenile. That's correct, yes. Speed changed to rapid. Rapid, yes. Austin Powers changed to Munich Strengths. Munich Strengths, yes.
Starting point is 00:15:35 And Scarface to Blemish. Yes, of course. And you make these calendars and they're very funny and the visuals are very funny and you send them to all your friends and they help get me through the year because I can be a depressive and sometimes I'm feeling a little down.
Starting point is 00:15:47 And then I go and I look at your calendar and I'm still down. Yeah, I was going to say, it does not change your mood probably. No, not at all. It tells you what day it is. Yes, I know what day I'm depressed. Well, yeah, which day is depression? This one.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Thanks, May 2nd. My favorite, I will tell you, is Beetlejuice was termite gravy. So stupid. You've had some success recently in film. You have. Geologically speaking, yes. What's that?
Starting point is 00:16:16 Geologically, it's been recent, yes. No, please. I want to say, in last summer, you were in the Amazon movie, My Spy, The Eternal City. Your co-star was David Bautista. You played a serious villain. Yes. You love a villain.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Oh, I like to be a bad boy. Yeah. Yes. And it must be fun because I know that, that was me taking off my sunglasses. Oh. I know that you, like, you're very locked in. And so when you get to be naughty on the screen,
Starting point is 00:16:42 do you know what I mean? That must be a release for you. Well, when you are in line at the Chipotle waiting to order your bowl of burrito, you must be nice and friendly and courteous. Yes, yes. But when you are told, be rude to David Bautista, try to give him a woogee,
Starting point is 00:16:54 then you do not have to be nice. And that's fun. Sorry, woogee is, oh, you're trying to say wedgie. I don't know. It's when you grab the underwears or perhaps the bikini bottoms of a man or woman and go up. Yes, and then of course the fabric goes up into the... Ideally up into the anus. Can you grab the underwears or perhaps the bikini bottoms of a man or woman and go up? Yes, and then of course the fabric goes up into the... Ideally up into the anus.
Starting point is 00:17:09 Into the fissure. Well, don't say anus. That's not cool. What did you call it? The fishery? The fissure, the crack. The fissure. There's no reason to get to the anus.
Starting point is 00:17:17 You can just say into the fissure. Into the fissure? Yeah. Like Fisher Price, like the toys, KB Toys. No, F-I-S-S-U-R-E, fissure. Well, if you say so. Okay, I do say so. Oh, okay. You're in AmericaE, Fisher. If you say so. Okay, I do say so.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Oh, okay. You're in America now, buddy. Thank you very much. You'll follow our rules, and we know our wedgies better than anybody. That's true. Is this true? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:32 We invented them. The wedgie was invented in America in 1915. Oh, Degrassi Junior High. It was... That's Canadian. Oh, it is? Oh, sorry, Canada. You're so screwed up.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Are you speaking to them again? We don't know, what's happening. We're working it all out. Okay. Yes, our leader is taking care of happening. We're working it all out. Okay. Yes, our leader is taking care of it. Oh great. And we trust him. You, you...
Starting point is 00:17:50 Yes, just say it, Conan. I don't think you have a purpose. Oh, I agree. On this podcast. Oh my God. I think you are without rudder. I think you are drifting and you say, what's your next question?
Starting point is 00:18:00 Question, this is a, you are a tornado of foolishness. Of absurdity. What do you mean, what's the next question? Question, this is a, you are a tornado of foolishness. Of absurdity. What do you mean? What's the next question? You could have stopped at, you don't have a purpose. And I would have agreed with you heavily. Oh, what just kind of drew, oh, is this a- It looks like blood.
Starting point is 00:18:17 This I'm drinking right now. Erewhon. Yeah. I know from the color. We were sent a, I did an event recently. The Oscars, you might've heard of it. No, I'm not bragging about that. I did an event for the show, Severance,
Starting point is 00:18:33 which is my favorite TV show right now. I love Severance and they asked me to host a panel. And then that show was on Apple and Apple sent a little basket of apples and some juices. Oh, how literal. And I went. I know. Of course I was ripping through the, that show is on Apple, and Apple sent a little basket of apples and some juices. Oh, how literal. And I went. I know.
Starting point is 00:18:48 Of course I was ripping through the bag looking for a computer or a watch or something. Apples and juices, but they're very good. Delicious. Trust me, I do not need any free items. You have enough free items? No, I don't. We can take them.
Starting point is 00:19:02 What about us? You can just hand them down. They can give them to you and then you can give them to other people. No, Eduardo has made it clear, but I'm trying. We can take him. What about us? You can just hand him down. They can give him to you, and then you can give him to other people. No, Eduardo has made it clear that he doesn't want anything for free, and he doesn't want any of you to get anything for free,
Starting point is 00:19:10 and I admire that about you, Eduardo. Aw. That's not true. You don't want an order of AirPods Pro? No, he said no, nothing. We all do. Oh. I was gifted recently a vintage 1958 Porsche,
Starting point is 00:19:21 completely restored, and Eduardo made me give it back. He said, it's not a good look for the company. I said, well, do you want it? And he said, not only do I not want it, no one should have it. Well, who gave it to you, the United Arab Emirates? Yes. The Emirates.
Starting point is 00:19:34 Oh, okay. Yeah, I've done some favors for the Emirates. I have seen it. Yeah, I've done. Why are you still on MySpace? It worked out for me. Let's just put it that way. I agree, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Now, put me in your top six, just so you know, for future reference. Let's get back to you because you're the one that people care about. Tell me about the child, Flula. How did you become this improbable, ridiculous man? What were your interests? What did you love to do?
Starting point is 00:20:01 Did you run through the fields? Did you have friends? Tell me about yourself. Yes and no. So I did enjoy the fields of running. I had very little friends and very little siblings. By that I mean zero. I didn't kill or eat them.
Starting point is 00:20:12 They simply didn't come out of my mother's hole. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Fisher. Sorry, sorry. He's a fisher. Fisher. Thank you, thank you, Matthias. Out of a fisher.
Starting point is 00:20:23 Matthias. So there was only, actually zero things came from her. Fisher? Well, no, youias. Out of a Fisher. Thank you. Matthias. My apologies. So there was only, actually zero things came from her Fisher? Well no, you came. Well I was a senior salad. And then you waited very, you came out. I came out as a salad.
Starting point is 00:20:35 So you were the entree, no you were the appetizer. I was all three of those. I was like in and out, this, what, you guys, get a burger, bye bye, you know. Okay, so this was your crazy horrific way of, no siblings, you were an only child. Yes. So you were born and they said there'll be no more of this. Well, something in German and I couldn't intelligible it because I was very young.
Starting point is 00:20:55 You were very young. When you're a baby in Germany, do you cry angrily? You go, wah, wah, oh my god. Yes. Well, I'm just curious, wah, wah. Yeah, it starts that way. Wah! Yeah, we have to adjust, it's like a modulation.
Starting point is 00:21:08 Sometimes it's screaming, you have to get to a whispers. Gah, gah, goo, goo! Yeah, yeah. And yet it is in the other direction, you're correct. You guys, I believe, goo, goo, gah, gah. Yes. We gah, gah, goo, goo. Very good.
Starting point is 00:21:18 We're... And people say cultures can't come together. They can. And understand each other, but they can? They can, sexually. Okay. That's not, that's not but they can? They can, sexually. Okay. That's not, that's not good. Just cut that Eduardo.
Starting point is 00:21:27 No, no, no, we're not, Eduardo, stop listening a long time ago. Oh, he's left the room. Do you, what did you do for fun? What did Young Flula do for fun? We understand that you ran through the fields and that you were alone, we know why, but what were you doing for fun?
Starting point is 00:21:40 Did you like music? What did you watch on television? What influenced Young Flula? Well, to say this implies there has been an evolution. Things have not changed since I was young flula. I listened to C&C Music Factory. Things that make you go, do you know that song? I was at the club, sitting by
Starting point is 00:21:58 the fireplace drinking cocoa on the bare skin rug. That's C&C Music Factory? This would be, yes, Colin Sivilis, C&C. Okay. Gonna make you sweat, make you bleed. Yes, it's dope enough indeed. I paid the price to control the dice. I'm more precise to the point I'm nice, yes.
Starting point is 00:22:15 Incredible. I mean, this is fantastic. And you, Matthias. I know what? I lived a life. I'm a grown man, I've lived a life. You have lived a life, a deep life. Did you grow up also in Erlangen, Germany?
Starting point is 00:22:25 Yes. Oh. I'm from Stuttgart. Oh my. You're from Stuttgart? Yes. That's nice. The weather today is nice, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:22:35 A little bit warm, I'd say, but it's not bad. I feel like I'm in Glorious Basterds and I'm just trying to hope no one notices me. And two. That I'm an American. And two. Three. Yeah, if you use the thumb, that's what got him in trouble. That I'm an American. I'll have... Oh, twice. Yeah, if you use the thumb,
Starting point is 00:22:47 that's what got him in trouble. That's how you do it, Jess. And this is also, I have nailed a tray, Jason Tateum, your favorite player, yes? Yes. From Dublin. From the Celtics, yes. He is an Irishman, a good Irishman. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Mr. Tateum. Yeah. Originally Mr. Tater. Oh, I gotta go. ["Rainin' Men"] Listen, we're gonna talk about you some more. So you would hang out in the clubs, you like CNC Music Factory, and you still do to this day.
Starting point is 00:23:18 Of course. Did you like the song, it's raining men, hallelujah it's raining men. Hallelujah, it's raining men. I mean, it's an acceptable song. I always listen to that song and thought, men are falling to their deaths. Right. You men. I mean, it's an acceptable song. I always listen to that song and thought, men are falling to their deaths. Right.
Starting point is 00:23:27 You know what I mean? They all die. They all die and they land on the happy women who are excited that men are falling, shattered vertebrae. It's Oliveria Thelma-Louise's song, because at the end, they will be also crushed by the weight of these men, assuming these men are of normal height, weight and mass.
Starting point is 00:23:43 Yes, yes. And they've reached a critical speed. Terminal velocity, literally. Terminal velocity, yes, literally terminal. You know, it's funny, if you listen to this, not this, but if you listen slowly, you'll occasionally hear something intelligent. It's like every now and then it's this stew
Starting point is 00:24:00 that's just got nothing, but every now and then there's just a little piece of beef. In the song, it's raining men, hallelujah? No, no, in this conversation we're having. So I should listen to the song slowly, slowly, using those big Bose headphones. No one's ever analyzed that song ever. Well, when it first came out, I said, this is terrible. And it scared me.
Starting point is 00:24:21 It's raining men. And I pictured men falling from the sky and falling on top of those women and killing them. Because let's say the average man weighs, I don't know, 185, 195 pounds. A lot of pounds. It's a lot of pounds. I once thought about the song, I'm Your Penis, I'm Your Fire, Your Desire, which is also very disturbing.
Starting point is 00:24:38 It's not I'm Your Venus. It's Your Venus. It's not penis. In German, it's penis. Oh. It's Your Venus here? Yeah. Why would In German it's penis. Oh. It's your Venus here? Yeah. Why would a girl be singing I'm your penis?
Starting point is 00:24:49 How do you know it's a girl? I didn't see the video. Oh. Can I tell you something that I was always- Could be Todd Thompson. What is a real misunderstanding I have? Oh, God. What's wrong, Conan?
Starting point is 00:24:59 I'll be fine. It's gonna be fine. Do you need an accent? Is that a sponsor? You know that song, hey there, amigo, days when the rain, you know. Oh, Brown Eyed Girl. Brown Eyed Girl.
Starting point is 00:25:08 Oh, yeah. Van Morrison. By Van Morrison. I honestly thought there's a line in it. Shalana. No, there's a line where he says, going down in the old mine for a transistor radio, with a transistor radio,
Starting point is 00:25:22 meaning he goes down into one of the mines. A metaphor. And listens to a transistor radio. with a transistor radio, meaning he goes down into one of the mines. A metaphor. And listens to a transistor radio. I swear to God, for years I thought he was saying, going down on an old man for a transistor radio. And I thought, how bad do you want? That better be a great radio. Yes, that's a fair exchange, depending on the radio.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Well, I mean, this has to be AMM. AMM at least. At least have both. Yeah, I mean, this has to be AM, FM at least. At least have both. Yeah, and it has to have good speaker system. And yes, and the man's ding dong is hopefully small. Why? What are we talking about? I mean, once you're there, does it really matter?
Starting point is 00:26:03 Does it really matter what size the ding dong is? Also, if you're down in a mine, you can't get reception on a transistor radio. Oh, that's a good point. This is a bum deal for this guy. The bigger point is why did I think that a guy was blowing an old man so he could borrow his transistor radio? And he's receiving the filet show in a mine?
Starting point is 00:26:21 No, I think it's either man or mine, so it can't be both. He didn't go down into a mine to blow a guy. He blew a guy to get a radio. Oh. You know, can I say something? So the location is independent? This can't air. This won't air.
Starting point is 00:26:33 Maybe he went down on a mime. Oh, a mime! Oh! He went down on a mime, and the mime's just making faces. And just punching down. Oh, and the mime is walking against the wind in place while he's being blown.
Starting point is 00:26:44 Yes, yes. And then he's in a box. But then he comes and he opens the orgasms and he opens the top of the box. He's living in a cardboard box. I hate you. You still hitting to lead over there? I'm not a fan of yours anymore.
Starting point is 00:26:58 Agreed, Conan. I have never been a fan of you. And I'll tell you why I'm not a fan. Please tell me the reasons. This was a great podcast. This was my chance to have someone from another nation come on from across the sea and have a cultural exchange. And it's become, and I blame you,
Starting point is 00:27:10 because on any ordinary day, this is a very, very, you know, I think, well... Regal. Regal podcast. Thank you. That was the word I was searching for. Regal. You, I have a question for you.
Starting point is 00:27:24 Oh, it is? Okay. One of your dreams, I know, is to be word I was searching for. Of course. Regal. Yeah. I have a question for you. Oh, it is, okay. One of your dreams, I know, is to be in a James Bond movie as a villain or do you think you could be James Bond? And this, Matthias, coincides with his, he loves James Bond movies and I've been thinking about it, you're in great shape, you're good looking, you're the correct age.
Starting point is 00:27:39 What? Why can't James Bond be German? Can he be? Can he be German? Well, I mean, you're putting this on me? Yeah. Sure. Yeah, do you wanna be James Bond
Starting point is 00:27:51 or do you wanna be a villain? You'd be a good henchman too. Any of those, I like henches. I would do any of those things. I think you'd be an amazing henchman. I think it's gonna be a problem to say His Majesty's Secret Service. His Majesty's Secret Service.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Yeah, but listen to you. It's me, 007, watch out. You know what, this audition's going very well. His Majesty's here. And service. Hello to you. But listen to you. It's me, 007. Watch out. You know what? This audition's going very well. Please come in, 007. We have an assignment for you.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Thank you for inviting me in, Penny Money. Okay. We know that you are, of course, a proud son of England and that you would do anything for the Queen. I will do all of the things for the Queen and also to be clear to the Queen. Okay. Oh. Okay, listen. Bond, do come along.
Starting point is 00:28:29 Oh, absolutely. No, I mean, he's, it's a little bit of a problem that he's from Germany. Let's try him out as a villain. Okay. So you're Bond. Okay. You guys are having your big like monologuing moment.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Okay, so I have stumbled, you captured me. Yeah, you're captured. You're holding me captive in your, it's a volcano that you carved out. And you're showing me how you're gonna destroy the world. Hello. Dr. Flula. Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Dr. Flula, I presume. Yes, hello to you, James. And welcome to my, is that your James Bond? I don't know. What is that? I've got to, listen. I was a connery. What was that?
Starting point is 00:29:03 I was trying to do a sort of a, you know, well, I'm trying to figure out what my bond is. Hold on a second. Yeah. Let me get it. Let me get it. I think he's... Hold on.
Starting point is 00:29:14 Roger Moore? Hello? His face is like this. He talks like he's not very intimidating. Well, no. What is this? Your bond is collecting butterflies. No, your bond, just to match who you are, he's like this.
Starting point is 00:29:23 He talks like this. No, that's not my bond. Don't tell me who my bond is. You're neither this kind He talks like this. No, that's not my Bond. Don't tell me who my Bond is. You're either this kind of Bond like this. No, he's not that Bond. Or you're like, I'm Roger Moore. Oh. Well, that's Roger Moore towards the end. He's like, you're Roger Moore.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Hello, I'm James Bond. Hello, I'm James Bond. We'll try it this way. Dr. Fleuler, you seem to have captured me in your volcano. What is your plan? Yes, Timothy Dalton. Thank you for coming to my volcano that I have emptied out using a tiny shovel for 200 years. I did notice there are no henchmen. Usually people have henchmen, but I suppose you were.
Starting point is 00:29:57 Sorry, but you're like a prospector. So bad. I like it. Hold on a second. Mine's better than yours. I'm just wondering. Yes, James. Is there gold in this I'm just wondering. Yes, James. Is your gold in this here hill?
Starting point is 00:30:08 There may be, James. No, let me ask you something. Just a little bit of a question for you, Mr. Dr. Fleuler, as you will. What are your intentions? How do you plan to take over the world? It's very simple, really, Timothy. I plan to just take all of the television shows, turn them into one big show, and then just blare it out into the spry consist. You fiend.
Starting point is 00:30:29 This will destroy the world as we know it. It's called Max, which is the same place Conan must go, is there it? Season two, streaming now. Nicely done. Yes. I think that audition went quite well. You're hired? You're both hired.
Starting point is 00:30:43 Amazon called, and they've got their new bond and their new villain. Let me tell you something, my bond is fascinating because you never know what you're gonna get next. Yeah. You can't hone in on, is he Australian? Yes, Yosemite Sam. Is he Yosemite Sam?
Starting point is 00:30:56 Is he, is his jaw broken? Right. You don't know exactly what's going on with my bond. Yes, yes, shape shifter. The name's bone to James bone. Yes. You were like, what's a on with my bond. Yes, yes, shapeshifter. James Bond, James Bond. Yes. You're like, what's a rogue? Cy-Plops? What's the one lady from X-Men who could be anything but when she was relaxed
Starting point is 00:31:11 look like a seahorse? Oh, Mystique. Yes, you're like Mystique. Okay, all right. How do you know? You are so well-versed in your movies and your pop culture, and you love a video game, don't you? Oh, I do love a video game.
Starting point is 00:31:22 You like Grand Theft Auto? I like GTA, a medium amount to large amount, depending on the amount. You call it Grand Theft Auto? I call it, yes, I call it Grand Thevery Automobile. I think you should say things full names. Do they have a German edition of Grand Theft Auto where you're on the autobahn?
Starting point is 00:31:39 You're not because it's too fast. We have a GTA Düsseldorf, which involves not exceeding 35 kilometers per hour. And everything is kept very clean? Of course. And no one breaks any rules? You are immediately arrested. Came over.
Starting point is 00:31:53 So you're saying GTA Düsseldorf, it doesn't go very far, right? You just, you're questioned very quickly. That's correct. If you break the laws in GTA Düsseldorf, two weeks later, you will receive a fine in the mail directly from the PlayStation. That you played on.
Starting point is 00:32:08 Oh wow, that's terrible. Sorry, but how was your drink? It's very good. Please, let's not make it about me. Let's make it about you. Okay. I am curious, what's your favorite of the video games? Of all the video games in the world?
Starting point is 00:32:21 Yeah. I enjoyed to play a Zaxxon. Oh. Zaxxon. Which is a very old school game with two Xs, involves a Zaxxon. Oh, Zaxxon. Which is a very old school game with two Xs involved, a fake 3D and a spaceship that goes up and down. What happens on Zaxxon? I don't remember that one.
Starting point is 00:32:32 You're kind of like Space Invaders style, right? Where you're just shooting up. So you're talking, this is 1980s technology. I've told you I have not evolved since I have been Y-Fluela, which is short for Young Fluela. So in 1985, someone hits you with a brick and you have not evolved since then. I do not know about the brick.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Something definitely hit my cranium. Okay. Conan, what's your favorite video game? Tell me immediately. Okay, I will tell you my favorite video game. I have to say it's those World War II war games. Oh, Call of Duty? Oh, Call of Duty.
Starting point is 00:33:01 I like those. I like anything where, or I like the World War I Call of Duty. Call of Duty, I like those. I like anything where, or I like the World War I Call of Duty. That might be my favorite because there's a lot of biplanes and zeppelins flying around. I just like something that has a little bit of a historic connotation.
Starting point is 00:33:12 I'm shocked you answered that question. Also, I like Slenderman. I know that's a really old reference, but I think it was based on me. And I think I'm the original concept behind Slenderman. That's a video game? I thought it was a film. I thought it was just an urban legend
Starting point is 00:33:27 that then became a film. I think it was a video game. Wasn't there a video game, Slenderman? And you're saying Slenderman? Why are you saying it's Slenderman? Are there several Slenderman? Of the Connecticut Slendermans? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:39 He's the one that got me into the club, the Slendermans. Computer game, according to this. Okay, well forget I said it. No, you got it. That was wonderful. It was a computer game. Yes. Okay, well listen, I wanna stay focused.
Starting point is 00:33:53 Okay. You like to play Zaxxon, you listen to CNC Music Factory. You think that Reagan is just beginning his second term. Just now started, it's 1985. Right. There's some signs that maybe he's slipping a little bit, but everyone's going, what are you talking about? It's like, listen, tear down that wall. Yeah, that's all. Right. There's some signs that maybe he's flipping a little bit, but everyone's going, what are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:34:06 It's like, listen, tear down that wall. Yeah. That's all he says. Were you okay with that when he said tear down? Well, I would prefer to remove it gently brick by brick. Yeah. I think that's better. Just for safety reasons.
Starting point is 00:34:16 Yeah, exactly. The energy I supported, to be clear. Did you not support this? Oh, no, I did. I was very happy. I thought Germany should be united, East and West. Oh, great. Like the Koreas. Great. Well, I would like it if they would resolve the Korean issue as well.
Starting point is 00:34:32 Great enough. Global talk. Yeah. I mean, it's getting a little serious here, but if you're going to ask me questions that are serious, I'll answer them. Yes, I do wish that the division between North and South Korea ended, and it was one country. What about the Carolinas? I think no, no. That's impossible, correct? That's impossible, the division between North and South Carolina.
Starting point is 00:34:51 I think there's gonna be a third Carolinas. Yes, Torquil's, Dan Cox and someone else. And don't get me started on the Virginias, the Virginias, yeah. West and proper. Hey, don't say that, West is the only Virginia as far as I'm concerned. I disagree, friend.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Really? Snap what? Shots fired. You've got the power. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He shows his side. You don't know Snap? That's the sound of a fire shot, yes. You are a fan of coin collecting.
Starting point is 00:35:14 I'm going to switch topics quickly, because that's what you have to do with Flula to keep it going. Yes, buffalo head nickels. Now, when did this begin? Wheat pennies. What? Wheat pennies.
Starting point is 00:35:23 Oh, pennies that have the little shafts of wheat on them. Shafts? Huh? Spigs? Oh. Yes. Why do you derail everything I say? There are pennies that have little pieces of wheat on them.
Starting point is 00:35:34 I just said shafts of wheat and you derailed the whole thing. Wait, sorry, but a shaft to me is a very different item than a piece of wheat. But yes, wheat pennies. Yeah. Okay, I guess I'm the one in the wrong here. I've never heard shaft of penny, but I think we all think of dicks when you say shaft. I was thinking of a penis.
Starting point is 00:35:50 Penis, yeah, it's a ding dong, sorry. A ding dong, sorry. It's, you said shaft, so we all didn't know you were talking about wheat. We thought you were talking about a penis. If someone says their elevator's not available today because we're working on the shaft, you immediately think.
Starting point is 00:36:05 Penis. Wait, but this. That's what you mean. You have to work on the penis to fix the elevator. I'm gonna try hard to make this better. You collect these coins. Yes. What else do you, besides the buffalo head
Starting point is 00:36:18 and the wheat pennies, what else do you collect? What's your most valuable coin that you have in your collection? Flula, answer quickly. I have none of value, but I did once have a bicentennial quarter, which was made in 1976 to celebrate your bicentennial, which is 200 years of being America.
Starting point is 00:36:32 Yes, yes. It was quite a long time ago now, of course, but I would think that that would be a very common, it wasn't that long ago. No, it's also, it's worth 26 cents. Conan, are you a collector of items? It's worth 26 cents. CONAN AND CHRISTOPHER LAUGH Conan, are you a collector of items? Um, I really am not.
Starting point is 00:36:50 You could say I have a guitar collection. Oh, but I shouldn't? Well, you'll be punished if you do. Oh. I have a lot of guitars. I didn't seek them out. I sought a few of them out, but mostly over the years of musical people coming on my show
Starting point is 00:37:06 and seeing it in rehearsal that I played guitar or was trying to get better at guitar, they would gift me a guitar. And over the years, I've amassed a bunch. And at some point, I want to, some of them are quite strange. And I want to share them with the world at some point and tell the story behind some of them.
Starting point is 00:37:24 Some of them would be incredible. And then some of them are quite absurd and ridiculous. A guitar I got, I believe maybe from Sweden, which is made with a bathroom scale is the base of the guitar. And there's a neck coming out of it. And it's a functioning bathroom scale.
Starting point is 00:37:42 Vestal. Some of them are in the look like my face. I don't see the value of that. And but- It's a functioning bathroom scale. Nasty. Some of them are in the look like my face. I don't see the value of that. And but- Delicious face. But also some really good, great guitars. I smell a new podcast, Koneag. Conan O'Brien needs a guitar.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Yes. Oh, it's not a guitar where I'm nagged and hectored by- No. Okay. No, it'd be very supportive where every time you receive a new Diddley Doot. Yeah, in the guitar. Yes. It's not called the Diddley Doot. Well, it's shorter to say Diddley Doot.
Starting point is 00:38:09 I don't think so. I think guitar is faster. Everyone knows what I'm saying when I say Diddley Doot. It's not a clarinet. Okay. It's not a tuba. Okay. It's a guitar.
Starting point is 00:38:17 What do you guys call a tuba? A tuba. A tuba? No, a tuba. Okay. What do you call a tuba? We call it a tibin. A tibin? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:25 Oh. Uh, listen, you are... I don't know. I can't get a bead on you. It's like trying to push down on a moist seed. It just squirts away. But you're putting it all on him. I think you bring a little of this in. No, no, no. Excuse me. I am not.
Starting point is 00:38:40 You said shaft of wheat. You knew where that went. Yeah. No, I didn't. You think everything I say, if I said like, oh, look, there's a red balloon. You're like, oh, here he goes with his dicks again. I mean, not everything is a penis.
Starting point is 00:38:53 I thought that meant diaphragm, but yes, it's funny. I'm gonna ask you something. You keep a diary, I'm told. And I'm going somewhere with this. How do you know about this? Because I borrowed it last night while you were sleeping. Oh, so that was your entry? Yes, that was my entry.
Starting point is 00:39:10 What's your obsession with termites? I came into your apartment and no, you keep a diary. You're a loyal keeper of a diary, but you don't call it a diary. You call it a... A thank you journal. What's that? A thank you journal. I thought it was a diary. A diary is a day book. Yes, you can call it a diary. You call it a... What's that? A Dankbarheitsjournal. I thought it was a Torgebuch. A Tagebuch is a day book.
Starting point is 00:39:26 Yes, you can call it a diary. Well, why did you call it something else? I did research here. I had people watching you for a while. Thank you. I know. I left my door unlocked. You keep a diary or as you call it a Torgebuch.
Starting point is 00:39:42 Tagebuch. Why do you keep a diary? Are you journaling in this diary? What are you writing in your diary? Every day there are three things that are wrong and three things that are right and I have to write about those things. And then I do it.
Starting point is 00:39:54 Then I fix the things that are wrong or perhaps leave them be and cry about them and move on. Okay. Do you not have a Tagebuch, Conan? I don't write down the things that are right and the things that are wrong. I don't understand that part. I mean, I have a to-do list. Like, oh, I should do this, I should do that.
Starting point is 00:40:08 Sometimes I write down my feelings. Wrong. Another podcast with, you know, Matt and Sona. Boy, they really get in the way and they stop me from being my true self. But that's correct. Yes, yes. They're all holding you down. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:22 Think of the heights I could scale if it weren't for these monsters. Some things in my takabook. Yeah. You know, Eduardo, you know, what's he up to over there? Nobody knows. Fiddling with his dials. What, all those four?
Starting point is 00:40:34 A chef. Yes, chef. Can you go again? You know, Eduardo, you're better than that. Everyone looks up to you on this podcast, and now you've done it. Your favorite superhero... Yes?...is Spider-Man. How did you know this?
Starting point is 00:40:47 Because I looked in your diary and it says Flula loves Spider-Man. Or Flula Spider-Man or Mrs. Flula Spider-Man. You just dream about Spider-Man all day long. Why do you like Spider-Man the best of all the heroes? I like that he has limitless webs because if he's super hungry, he can also just go... Kuh, kuh. You can eat the webs?
Starting point is 00:41:07 If you're a spider, absolutely. I guess it's fiber. If you're... I never thought of that. Maybe the webs are like a hardened cheese. Of course. It's like a brie. It's a munster. A munster. Is that the right way to say it? I say munster, yes. What do you say?
Starting point is 00:41:20 I... Now I say munster. I say munster. If I see the umlaut. Yeah. Or a UE is also like an umlaut. You guys, you have a great language. You have an umlaut, and I love the umlaut, and I wish we had an umlaut in this country. I'd like to, I bet you carry an umlaut with you wherever you go.
Starting point is 00:41:36 Two periods, yes. And, but it changes Munster to Munster. Munster, eww. It's fantastic. Do you like an umlaut? Sure, yeah. Okay. I love an umlaut It's fantastic. Do you like an Umlaut? Sure, yeah. Okay. I love an Umlaut.
Starting point is 00:41:47 Yeah. My favorite's the Denver Umlaut. You know what, let me tell you something. Oh, come on. I'll tell you why I'm funny, and then I'll tell you how I'm funny. Adam doesn't even know what's happening. We're bringing you down?
Starting point is 00:41:55 You just said Denver Umlaut. You owe everybody an apology. You know what's so funny? Adam is always usually very supportive. He's supportive 98% of the time. Today, whenever I speak, he looks like he's having a gas pain under his sternum. Oh, I assumed he's deathly ill.
Starting point is 00:42:12 Yeah. You're not the problem, apparently. Apparently- Oh no, I am the problem. You think so? Yes. I think you allow my stupidity. It's your fault. I welcome it and love it and hug it and spoon it.
Starting point is 00:42:22 All right then. It's my favorite thing, Carol. I don't want to get too personal, but how's your love life? Listen, I am a, I'm dating currently a techno whole note. That's right. Oh, what? It's four beats of delicious techno at 102 BPM.
Starting point is 00:42:40 Consistent, reliable. I can pause it, mute it, turn it up. It's delicious. So can I hear pause it, mute it, turn it up. It's delicious. So can I hear what it sounds like for a second? That is what you're dating. Yes. Okay. Does it have a name?
Starting point is 00:42:55 Okay. You fool. Yeah. Yeah. I've always wanted- Say it. I've always wanted you to be in a relationship. I know you, you're a good looking Germanic fellow,
Starting point is 00:43:11 you're in the clubs. In the clubs, yes. 50 cent. You've got this incredible abs. You're probably dating a different BPM every night. Yes, I will switch it up quickly. Thanks, Spotify. But do you want to date him? Very night. Oh yes, I will switch it up quickly. Thanks, Spotify. But don't you, don't you- Do you wanna date him? Very much.
Starting point is 00:43:27 Say it, Conan, very much. Okay, I figured, because you're just going on and on about him, it just sounds like- He's a dreamboat. Are you in an open relationship, Conan? My wife would like me to be. Oh, she's insistent. My wife has suggested several times,
Starting point is 00:43:40 actually several times a week, that maybe I'd like to explore other possibilities. Conan, let's go visit a proverbial coffee bean and tea leaf together. Oh, I would do that. Anytime. Oh, I mean proverbial, though. Oh. So you're talking about something else. Yes. You know. Your tea bean, my leaf.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Oh! I don't know what to do with you. Same. Listen. You know what's funny? They give me pages of what they think I'm going to talk to Flula about, but none of it... What good is this? You can't have notes when you talk to Flula-Borg.
Starting point is 00:44:15 Don't do it. No, don't do it. Don't do it, Conan. And drugs in the 70s and 80s just don't do it. Yes. Put that frying pan away and also that egg that you cracked on it. That's your mind on drugs? Mm-hmm. No one knows what we're talking about. They don't do it. Yes, put that frying pan away and also that egg that you cracked on it. That's your mind on drugs? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:44:27 No one knows what we're talking about. They don't know it. No, it's been too long. It has been too long. You, do you like your life? You a happy fellow? I'm a happy man. Are you a happy man, Conan?
Starting point is 00:44:36 I'm concerned. God, he's so good at turning it back on me all the time. Yes, I'm a very happy person. Oh, you're reflecting back on me with your shiny gluten pouch. My gluten pouch, my belly bag, yeah. I am a very happy person. Oh, you're reflecting back on me with your shiny gluten pouch. My gluten pouch, my belly bag, yeah. I am a happy man. Okay.
Starting point is 00:44:50 I believe I am. You've had some recent, very exciting newses. I don't know when this is airing. They were recent to me. This won't air. You'll never hear this. Oh, great. I will bury this. This will be put into deep, into a salt mine in Utah.
Starting point is 00:45:02 But you recently, oh, where? Provo? Don't you ever look at me and say Provo. I'm so sorry. I cannot tell you. It's the one thing I will not have is someone yelling Provo at me in a German accent. It's your safe word.
Starting point is 00:45:14 Yes, I've had a good year, I've had a good run. You won Marcus Twain, you won an award made- Mark Twain, he's a famous American humorist. Anarchist? No, he's not an anarch, he's a famous American humorist. Anarchist? No, he's not an anarchist. Oh. He was an American humorist and it's a very nice thing that happened.
Starting point is 00:45:30 I was honored by my fellow members of the comedian community. Oh, wonderful, the CC. So it's not a man that invented twine, like Alfred Nobel invented dynamite? No, no. And using your logic, Alfred Nobel would have invented Nobel.
Starting point is 00:45:45 So you're an idiot. Oh, which is a book that is much shorter. It's half of a Nobel. Okay. Why speak to you, I guess is the question, or why even continue? You brought up, I've had some good fortune lately, but no one wants to hear about me.
Starting point is 00:46:00 Why not? Because they want to hear about Fleule Borg, a man who grew up in, where is it called? Haarlingen. Oh no, I like your guess. What was your guess? Grebenheden? Grebenheden, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:10 You grew up in a small village. Grebenheden. Where not only are the shoes wooden, but all the clothes are wooden. And all the Heidens are Greben. Yeah, Greben and Schluden. And you decided one day you would leave your father's cuckoo clock factory. I said bye-bye to you, birds rotating in a circle. And you said, I will come to America and find my future.
Starting point is 00:46:29 Those are my exact words. Yes. And then you said, I hope I have enough, and you lurched into your pockets and you had some rare coins, some wheat coins. Some wheat kind of full of shafts. Yes. You reached down into that deep pocket of yours. Yes, it's so deep.
Starting point is 00:46:42 Shafts of wheat. And then you also, there was probably a hazelnut in there, a little knollet. Human treat for the... Of course. And then you took a boat, I believe, to come to this country. I did. There were several planes available, but I selected a boat. A boat.
Starting point is 00:46:57 A boat, yes. A boat. And then I accidentally won a hype man contest, and then that was my decision to come here and do a professional thing called whatever this is. Yeah. You, I would imagine, would be a great hype man. Don't you think you'd be the best hype man? I think so, yeah. Can I hear some of your hype man that you do in the clubs?
Starting point is 00:47:10 Hey, everyone, it's me, Flew Le Bourg. Welcome to your concert. If you're excited, raise one or both of your hands if you have two. If you only have one, then raise one. If you have no hands, oops. You shouldn't have worked in that factory. Yes.
Starting point is 00:47:24 You know, you were my hype man, because You shouldn't have worked in that factory. Yes. You know, you were my hype man, because I did a tour a couple of years ago, bunch of very funny comedians. And you- And me, yes. No, no, you were hilarious, but you would also be a bit of a hype man for me. Yes, I was very supportive of your journey
Starting point is 00:47:40 as a standup comic comedian man. And also you would do the crowd work. You would go into the crowd with a microphone so that people could ask me questions. I did. I did. And my favorite thing is whenever you tripped or had trouble making your way through the crowd you go, Scheitze, Scheitze, Scheitze. Which is shit, but it just always cracked me up.
Starting point is 00:47:59 Accurate. It happened all the time. Yes. I'm very uncoordinated. Yeah. That means you have no accordion. Yes, exactly. Accordion free since 83. Okay, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:48:10 This is either a very good episode. No, it's the worst episode. I now play trombone, Conan. Trombone. Trombone, I've released a children's album. You have? Yeah, it's called, you know. No, I don't know what it's called.
Starting point is 00:48:23 Oh, what's slippery when peeled. Okay, you should be detained by authorities. I look forward to it. When was the last time someone looked at your papers and decided whether you should stay or not? Because that's a thing, that's a real thing that's happening now. And I think we should look at your papers. Well, thank God I have just a passport, which is just a book.
Starting point is 00:48:42 So the papers I don't bring out with me anymore. Also, I'm going to make a standup comedy special, Conan. Oh, when's that coming out? You know. You're very good at plugging things, aren't you? When's your special coming out? I do. In the future, Conan.
Starting point is 00:48:55 I will tell you all about it. Okay, well you'll be back. Oh, okay, great. Does that red light we can stop mean? No, that means we've reached the one third point. We still have two thirds of that. So we have two sections equal in size to the last section. Yes.
Starting point is 00:49:11 It's like a hockey game. Yes, exactly. Now we have to do, if that was 40 minutes, we have to now do 80 minutes of inventing German words like Aubergleider. Yeah, so Aubergleider is a very interesting thing. It's what you use to hang certain sized jeans. Really?
Starting point is 00:49:30 You know, you told me that I take stabs at German words and that occasionally it's a real word or almost a real word. Yeah, augengleider is what kind of what you said, which is like an eye smoothie. Yeah. A smoothie made of eyes? I don't know, you said it. Okay. Okayulula, what's next for you? What are you working on now?
Starting point is 00:49:45 Because I know you have a fan base, people want to see what you're doing. What's coming up for Fulula Borg? You're going to be in a movie, a television show, are you doing a show anywhere? How can I get the word out about Fulula Borg? Thank you for this very long question, which included several guesses. Conan, I will be in a movie called Champagne Problems on Netflix. It is a Christmas rock show. I'm going to be in a movie called Champagne Problems. How can I get the word out about Flula Borg? Thank you for this very long question, which included several guesses.
Starting point is 00:50:05 Conan, I will be in a movie called Champagne Problems on Netflix. It is a Christmas rom-com. Hey, that's great. Champagne Problems. Who are you in that with? I'm also in it with Minka Kelly. Oh, I love Minka Kelly. Yes, and others.
Starting point is 00:50:18 Oh, you're going to get an angry message from and others. From who? We don't know. Yeah. And looking forward to that. You enjoy the acting. I enjoy to act very much, Conan. It's a nice way to escape into something and say, bye-bye, and then come out and say, hello.
Starting point is 00:50:35 Have you seen Shawshank Redemption? Yes, I have. It's a wonderful film. Now you're promoting Shawshank Redemption. Have you seen it? Yes, I have, many times. Zee-wata-ne-ho? Zee-wata-ne-ho, yes. Zee-wata-ne-ho. Yes, I have, many times. Tijuana, Tijuana? Tijuana, yes.
Starting point is 00:50:45 Tijuana, yes. Tijuana. Yes, yes, in Mexico. I support Morgan Freeman as an actor. I think he's very talented. Well, you know, it's been debated whether he should be allowed to act and your support will be a key.
Starting point is 00:50:57 Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote, yes, vote, vote, yes. If I could stop you, Flula, I would. Please do it. But I think you you, Flula, I would. Please do it. But I think you're unstoppable.
Starting point is 00:51:07 You're an unstoppable force of nature. That's only because I outweigh you by 13 kilograms. Fula, I thank you for being here and... I apologize for all the minutes we spent together. We can never have those back. I adore you. I'm gonna say that in all seriousness. I'm gonna look you in the eye, back. I adore you. I'm going to say that in all seriousness. I'm going to look you in the eye, Flula.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Thank you. And say that whatever you're selling, I am buying because you are a hilarious, hilarious gentleman and I really enjoy you. Likewise, Conan. Thank you for having me and letting me join this table. Everyone now making eye contact as if we are drinking beverages, which is very important when you cheers.
Starting point is 00:51:45 Yes. Rue, that's one thing to remember, listeners of KONAFF. Available wherever podcasts are located. Okay, now I feel like I'm being mocked. What? This is over. No, I'm promoting your show to ensure its longevity. Do we have security? Can someone escort him out?
Starting point is 00:51:59 Oh, you're gonna do it, Eduardo? Please do it. Oh, God, this guy's gonna toss you around like a rag doll. Hot. Get out! Get out! Okay, I'm leaving. Bye! You're gonna do it, Eduardo? Please do it. Oh god, this guy's gonna toss you around like a rag doll. Hot. Get out! Get out! Okay, I'm leaving. Bye!
Starting point is 00:52:10 Put in some footsteps. And now, can you, Matthias, can you add some going downstairs sounds? Yeah. Oh, I forgot my fanny pack. Ooh, that's kind of sexy. Bye again. And then more, yeah. More footsteps. Okay, he's kind of sexy. Bye again.
Starting point is 00:52:26 And then more, yeah. More footsteps. Okay, he's done it for us. All right. Jesus. It's tradition that we have Flula sit in for the third act segment here. A wonderful cast. He's such a good guest. I enjoy him so much. I always say,
Starting point is 00:52:47 why would we have him leave when he has nothing else going on professionally? Well, I checked. You have no automobile. I don't. And you have- I'm a pedestrian through and through. Yes. And I don't think you have an apartment. I refuse one.
Starting point is 00:53:00 So anyway, he's going to help us out today. And what are we doing? Well, we're going to do a review the review is where we go to Apple podcasts and we find a review and we read it. And we kind of comment on the review that's commenting on the show. So you can join us with any opinions or any thoughts you have on this. I may offer feedback to the feedback.
Starting point is 00:53:16 Exactly. So many. Yeah, or you may have thoughts about how this podcast could be improved. I'm just assuming you're a huge fan. This is from listener KP in the Boston area, five stars. Christops Pozingas. You know him?
Starting point is 00:53:27 Yes. Okay. Yeah. Title best podcast to listen to during an MRI. Oh, I didn't know he was injured. Oh. I'm sorry you had to find out this way. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:37 You need to check up on your friends a little more. I feel very bad. Sorry about that, Christops. I had an MRI recently and the technician offered to let me listen to music on the provided headphones during the procedure. I immediately asked if the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast was available and it was. Really helped keep my mind off the loud sounds of the MRI machine and claustrophobia. As I left the appointment, the tech said I did great. Then after a pause, he added, no one's ever requested Conan. Well, I say that more people should.
Starting point is 00:54:05 Awesome podcasts. I love you guys and I'm sending extra love and support to Sona and her family. Hugs. Oh, that's very sweet. That's very sweet. My first question would be, I would love to watch the images of a brain
Starting point is 00:54:18 that's listening to this podcast. What happens to the human brain? Just a flat line. Ah! Yeah. It might be, I don't know. They might start to see areas of the brain light up that aren't supposed to light up.
Starting point is 00:54:30 This is kind of insulting. Why? If I'm gonna be honest, because you have to be extremely still in an MRI, which means this person wasn't even giggling a little bit. Yes, well, we don't know that. They were just listening to it. Maybe, maybe, maybe this person was laughing really hard,
Starting point is 00:54:47 their head was moving around, and they didn't get a really good scan. Well, the technician said that the person did great. Do you think that technician cares? You have a point. Technicians, you do have a point. The technician said that- This guy was lulled to sleep by this podcast.
Starting point is 00:55:06 Shit, I didn't think about that. The calmest patient he's ever had. He said, I've never seen someone. I hear they've been playing this podcast during massages, massage parlors and spas. You know, I've heard that they play our podcast when someone's having eye surgery. And if they move even a millimeter,
Starting point is 00:55:25 they'll be blinded for life. And they say people were just completely rigid, unmoving and almost frozen. Did you hear in the new Mission Impossible, when he's diffusing a bomb, he requests our podcast. Yes. Let's play season three. Tom Cruise's hand is shaking just slightly
Starting point is 00:55:41 and he goes, play something! And then... Heedibado, heediboo, heedibado, heediboo, heediboo, heedibado, heedibado, heedibado, heedibado, heedibado, heedibado, heedibado, heedibado, heedibado, and disengaged. Wow. You defused the bomb at 35 seconds. Not the required one second left for most action movies. Thanks, Conan.
Starting point is 00:56:01 Oh my God. You know what? That's terribly insulting. I took it a different way. And then what I heard that you didn't hear is no one ever asked for Conan. Oh, that's true. That's the part I heard. I think they're used to getting music, so maybe you're the first ever podcast.
Starting point is 00:56:16 I might be the first podcast. I might be the first podcast that's been listened to during an MRI. You know what that stands for. Yes, Portland Trailblazers. Okay, you need an that stands for. Yes, Portland Trailblazers. Okay, you need an MRI. Definitely, yes. You, have you had a checkup recently, Fula? I'm having a dentist appointment tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:56:34 Okay. Shall I request a Marie? Yes, you should. I would be fascinated to find out what would happen if they looked, if they could get inside your mind and look at it. Yes. I bet it would be just a lot of little gears made of chocolate turning around, you know? to find out what would happen if they looked, if they could get inside your mind and look at it. I bet it would be just a lot of little gears
Starting point is 00:56:47 made of chocolate turning around, you know? Both of you guys, like that exchange you had during the earlier interview, if you were both hooked up to MRIs during that, I'd- I think the MRIs would get up and leave. Yes, just a deep boss. They'd be like the two grumpy men in the Muppets. Just leave.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. Yes, okay, grumpy old MRIs. Yes. So we think that this guy was very still and didn't laugh at all during the MRI. Correct, yes. They have to be very still. Hey, maybe it was one of those really serious podcasts they do. Don't you do an ASMR episode once a week?
Starting point is 00:57:22 No. That's me trying to be funny. Oh, that's what that is. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Eduardo cut. That's okay.
Starting point is 00:57:33 No. So you often listen to my podcasts and think I'm just trying to make noises. When I have insomnia, just it sounds like you're trying to open like a bag of Skittles. Then I'm out. That's me talking to Jeff Garland.
Starting point is 00:57:46 Oh, that's what that was? That is literal white noise. It does work. LAUGHS A bag of Skittles. I love the way you say things. Oh, thank you. Things. You enhance words. Yes.
Starting point is 00:58:01 No, just in general. I love the way you speak. You know what I'm talking about, Sona. I do. It's cool. I heard you say it when I said boat. Boat., just in general. I love the way he speaks. You know what I'm talking about, Sona. I do. It's cool. I like it. I heard you say it when I said boat. Boat.
Starting point is 00:58:10 When you say boat. Boat, yes. I just love it. We're gonna need a bigger boat. Yes, yeah. Jaws. From the foam of the mouth. No, it's called Jaws.
Starting point is 00:58:18 Not the mouth. It's Jaws. Okay. What do you call E.T.? What? Weird guy. Okay? Weird guy. Okay, weird guy. Weird guy.
Starting point is 00:58:27 I think weird guy is just as good. Weird guy is just as good as E.T. Same syllable amount. Well, okay, yes, that's a good point. Steven Spielberg's weird guy. Weird guy. Seminal movie. From the guy who brought you the mouth. Weird guy weird guy seminal movie
Starting point is 00:58:53 If you like the mouth you love the weird guy watch out here it comes It's true. It's just true. Oh, yeah, those encounters of the third kind. Oh, yeah. They come again from outside. To the third degree. To the third degree, yes. Oh my God. Well, I think you would agree then. I mean, what would your review of this podcast be? What would you say? Would you give us five stars?
Starting point is 00:59:19 Yes. Dear Sona and Matt and Conan, I love very much your cast of pods. It is what I listen to during all of my surgeries, elective and otherwise. Please keep up the silent, non-emotional work. That's a wonderful review. Flula, thank you for joining us for this segment. Hey, thank you for having me for this segment as well.
Starting point is 00:59:42 Review the reviewers here on KONATH. Conan O'Brien needs a friend. Yes, of course. Yes, yes. Well, thank you once having me for this segment as well. Review the reviewers here on CONAFF. That's Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Yes, of course. Yes, yes. Well, thank you once again, Fulio. You're free to leave, and we'll add some sound effects of you leaving. OK. And this time in wooden clogs. Yes, very German, sure.
Starting point is 00:59:55 KNOCKING Bye. Oh, I thought we were doing it. You did it. Nice. That was a horse. No, it's good. That means I don't have to do any of this. That was a horse.
Starting point is 01:00:03 That was a horse. Nice. That was a horse. No, it's good. That means I don't have to do anything. That was a horse. That was a horse. Conan O'Brien needs a friend, with Conan O'Brien, Sonam Obsessian, and Matt Gorley.
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